South Africa: Gupta Inc - It's Now a Hand-to-Mouth Situation At Optimum Coal Mine

Dial one of Ajay Gupta's numbers and all you get, for days on end, is: "You have reached the mailbox of...". This seems to be a conundrum not only facing the Hawks who are looking for the fugitive but apparently one also faced by Optimum Coal Mine boss George van der Merwe, who urgently needs to raise a Gupta, any one of them, so he can sort out a crisis at the mine. By JESSICA BEZUIDENHOUT for SCORPIO.

On Thursday Optimum Coal Mine CEO George van der Merwe is scheduled to face hundreds of mineworkers who downed tools earlier over concerns about the future of the mine.

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